Jaron “Boots” Ennis confronted lots of criticism over his final couple of performances and made it no secret that he was trying to finish the doubts about him with a showcase efficiency. He would get that chance in what was anticipated to be a stern take a look at in opposition to fellow welterweight titleholder Eimantas Stanionis in a unification match, and what resulted what a one-sided beatdown to take the IBF and WBA titles.
Ennis (34-0, 30 KO) began the struggle rapidly, establishing an lively jab to the top and physique whereas putting energy pictures behind it from each the orthodox and southpaw stances. Particularly Ennis would make early investments in his physique assault and he landed some clear early ones that might break the ahead momentum of the aggressive Stanionis (15-1, 9 KO).
The issue for Stanionis, nonetheless, was that he was unable to maintain an offensive assault as Ennis confirmed loads of slickness defensively — though there have been nonetheless defensive lapses on Ennis’ behalf when he would showboat all through the struggle — or sustain with Boots’ pace and tempo offensively. In fact for Boots, he likes to struggle like he’s having enjoyable, and he had loads of enjoyable tonight.
A sixth spherical physique assault from Boots would have Stanionis collapse underneath duress and regardless of making it out of that spherical, an already bloodied Stanionis was deemed to have endured sufficient by his nook, and that’s the place the struggle was stopped. Stanionis didn’t contest the stoppage.
So Boots scores one other spectacular efficiency, and this one in opposition to a reputable opponent, and says he needs to take a while to get pleasure from this victory and his arduous work earlier than excited about whether or not he’ll proceed to look to unify the division or in any other case.
Undercard Outcomes
Raymond Ford UD-10 Thomas Mattice. Raymond Ford (17-1-1, 8 KOs) cruised to a unanimous determination win tonight on three shutout scorecards of 100-90 over Thomas Mattice (22-5-1, 17 KOs). Actually it was simply straightforward work for Ford, who showcased his pace, accuracy and mixture punching to dominate a much bigger opponent in Mattice — who himself didn’t have so much to supply exterior of his toughness, touchdown solely 24 complete punches over 10 rounds in response to the punch stats. Ford seems to be to maneuver on to larger and higher fights from right here.
Omari Jones KO-1 William Jackson. Omari Jones (2-0, 2 KOs) has excessive hopes for his boxing profession, and in his second skilled struggle he would ship a swift first spherical knockout in opposition to William Jackson (13-6-2, 5 KOs). Regardless of Jackson having a decent wanting document for somebody going in opposition to an opponent of their second skilled struggle, he truly hadn’t notched a win in over 10 years going into this struggle. Jones first stable physique shot put Jackson down for the rely, which is to be anticipated after Jackson almost tumbled to the canvas off a feint from Jones.
Shakhram Giyasov KO-4 Franco Ocampo. Shakhram Giyasov (17-0, 10 KOs) made brief work of his opponent Franco Ocampo (17-3, 8 KOs) in tonight’s DAZN opener, scoring a physique shot knockout of Ocampo within the fourth spherical. The struggle virtually didn’t even make it out of the primary spherical after Ocampo was harm badly by a shot and put down on the comply with up, however rapidly got here to a just some rounds later after Giyasov continued to impose his energy and accuracy.
